Hello there my fellow writers/readers! I am back with another chapter of Moonshine Valley! The first five OC's were all spectacular, and in this chapter they shall be introduced (not in total detail, but enough to start with), and I promise to you other readers this will be interesting and list some more details about the town and other such things.
So, no worries!
Anyways, thanks to my three reviewers! I love getting reviews (hint HINT *cough cough*) and on we go with chapter two!
Warning: T for suggestive themes, mentions of drugs/alcohol, and such the like.
2. Moving In: Part 1
As the rickety old bus pulled to a stop in the center of the town, person after person piled out and onto the cobblestoned street. The guide gave them all one last snort before pulling out and whipping around, taking the great metal beast of a machine back over the fragile wooden bridge and right back up the hill to the main city again.
Most everyone took their bags (they had only been allowed to bring an overnight bag, the rest of their luggage would be carted to them the next day) and headed in the general direction of where they were supposed to go. Whilst Hollie loitered at the front of her estate, a woman by the name of Reinforce Yukimura headed back over the thin connection of wood to a small, and less noticeable farm that would serve as her home.
Rein - as she was called in short - had to be Hollie's age, standing at 5'5" with a small nose, bright and enthusiastic hazel eyes, and long black hair that was in a high ponytail. The bangs curving just above her eyes, allowing that sparkle she had to shine through. She seemed naturally pink tinted, her cheeks, her lips, and her skin. She also didn't help add to the effect that Hollie was about as mature as a kindergartener, but Rein wasn't as large as some of the other women on the bus.
Rein passed the small house and shed there previously, moved past the greenhouses, and slowly opened the rotted gate of the makeshift corral that she had attempted to build before she went to Moonshine. She wanted to make the perfect home for her Clydesdale named Nightmare and the other three horses she had brought to start her ranch.
Brushing off her short cut red tank top with her black-gloved hands onto her shorts, Rein cracked her knuckles and got to work. Pulling at the weeds, rolling out the hay bales, the whole operation was going to last hours.
The sun was high as the small town began to head towards its beginning.
After Roxanne hobbled off the bus, before it tore out of the Valley like it was spooked by a ghost, she headed towards the small little place next to the large Inn and past an open plot of land that must have been an empty garden. The Bar.
Now, Roxanne - or rather, Roxy - Black was also a twenty-one year old woman. She was only about an inch taller than Rein was, with beautiful olive skin and thick chocolate brown hair that spilled over her shoulders in waves. She was also a woman that happened to put Rein to shame, and poor Hollie into even more than she was before.
Sad thing is, she wouldn't have to be running the bar if her mother hadn't forced her into going to the singles village. "You need to meet a man, and preferably a rich one." her mother - Anna - had said before shoving her out the door towards the bus, "I'm doing this for your own good!"
Piercing amber eyes rolled at the memory, then went back to analyze the white-bricked building in front of her that she signed up to run, hoping to turn a decent profit. Arms folded over her cream-colored tank and vest combo and tapped her foot on the hard rock beneath her, coming up with figures in her head like some kind of super computer. The red birdcage at the corner of her shirt wrinkled with the pressure she put against herself. She was nervous, but that was only because her dog Bambi was supposed to be there that next day, and this was if she was good on the bus ride and didn't run away.
Slinging her black bag over her shoulder, she took out a gold key, unlocked the bar, and stepped inside. The place was filled top to bottom with dust, furnished with dark red wood and a wall to floor shelf behind the bar that rested in the center of the room. In a corner was a blue vase stuffed with dead, stiff roses. A blue diary underneath. That wasn't part of Roxy's concern though, she had to get the bar clean.
By the end of the day, a huge welcome party was supposed to be held at the college up hill and always being someone for fore-thinking, Roxanne was cleaning up the bar for the after party that would surely commence.
Pulling some Lysol out of the spiderweb clogged cabinets underfoot, Roxy began to spiff up the place.
Striding up the next hill in the Valley, Jin Hogaraka went up to the old mansion converted into a college for those who wished to be further education - or get some to start with. Yet another thing one could not see from their place at the top of the hill.
Now Jin was twenty-two years old, and a very handsome man by any woman's standards. His bleach blond hair was styled modernly, with his bangs framing his face and mischievous green eyes. About 6 ft, with light skin, and a very slender and toned build, Jin looked like a man who took good care of himself - without pumping himself full of steroids.
Another thing about him that stood out had to be his. . . eh hem, clothing choices. He was wearing a tight black, long-sleeved shirt under a white, sleeveless Asian style garment, Japanese more specifically, with three blue straps lacing their way across his stomach and connecting at his back. A long, blue jacket went over that as well, with a high collar, very long detached sleeves with red linings, and white gloves. Almost form fitting white pants went with it, slid over blue, steel-toed boots with red markings as well.
Jin was supposed to be the new teacher in the college, and held the key to the building in one clinched hand. He wasn't nervous. Oh no, Jin Hogaraka was never, ever nervous. He was actually really enthused about his teaching experience, and even smiled to himself in a semi-maniacal bout of glee when thinking of all the possibilities of teasing students he would have.
Just as he reached the fountain, shed, and manor before him, Jin smiled as he flipped out the long bronze key the city had given him when he signed up for the job. With a loud THUNK the great wooden door crunched open and the musty smell of stagnant air and old furniture greeted the man's nose. He took a hearty sniff and rubbed his hands together, he had to make sure the whole front area was presentable for the get-to-gether, and he'd be danged if he didn't make it a good one.
Jared Frederick had to have been one of the youngest men to ever gain access into Moonshine. With the same height and build (well in the lower half. . . minds out of the gutter, I'm referring to LEGS.) as Jin, but with a very scrawny upper half and tan skin. Dark brown hair is short in the front and combed up and to the right, very particular and meticulous, and vivid blue eyes that reflected the sky that was on that day, very cloudless and bright.
He was dressed in a dark blue T-shirt that hugged his body close, the sleeves stopping after the triceps. Over that he wears a white athletic jacket and white khaki shorts that go to his knees and are loose on his waist and legs, and so he has to tie his white belt with silver loops tight, leaving a belt tail off the side a bit. Jared's dark blue tennis shoes with orange stripes on the sides could light up a blackout, and he walked silently from the bus to reach his choice of profession.
Before the whole village bailed out, there had been a strange man with wild, spiked black hair who called himself a scientist. Jared was going to be the one who took up that occupation, under-qualified as he seemed. He was an intellectual person, and what better way to be able to keep that mindset that science?
Making his way around the Inn, the odd building came to life before his eyes. A black chain-link fence surrounded the outside up until the front which was completely open. The front door was teal, flower beds filled with brown dirt sat just in front of it, and two electrically buzzing pillars zapped and sizzled on the sides of the house. Jared took out his black key and stuck it in the door, pushing it open gently, then firmly at first. The place almost seemed sealed shut. With heaves and shoves the door skidded and screeched open.
The room was pitch black until Jared reached for the light switch on the side, revealing a rather empty room. The other scientist must have had the time to clear all of his stuff out, funny, none of the others had been able to do that.
Jared shrugged, and not giving it a second thought, preceded to make himself as comfortable as possible.
He might have to end up staying in the Inn, but he gave it a shot anyways.
Caius Yuto only had to walk a few seconds before he made it to where he had to "set up shop" so to speak. He slid his army green knapsack off of his shoulder and onto the dust covered ground, kicking some up and causing a sneezing fit that caused several of the other people headed to other places to snicker and point. Caius was unfazed, and resorted to sticking his tongue out at all of them. For being 23, Cai had to be one of the most immature people there.
He was about 5'8", with pale skin and a lean sort of stature. His eyes were a powerful sapphire blue, and his hair was black and fell to the nape of his neck. Long, but not too long. Reaching into his knapsack he pulled out a tent, and continued stepping back a few feet until it was at full extension. He couldn't stand small spaces, so he had to get a big tent.
Pitching it would take hours, and the sun overhead was hot. The air was sticky and filled with flies, like they were all just stuck in a huge wad of fly paper. Caius had to bat them off at least every twenty seconds, he wondered if that was why people bailed. That or the slight smell of arsenic that lingered in the breeze. . . Nope, that was probably somebodies cigarettes.
"When's that blasted party again?" Caius asked himself aloud as he propped up the first pole and dug it into the ground.
"Oh well, I'll figure it out." and the laboring continued.
Moonshine Valley was rolling to a start, the people gradually showing their colors. What will become of these 16 men and women? Only time will tell.
Gahh! Haha introductions are hard to make interesting. I really hope I pulled through, I mean, I'm alright with it. It could have gone worse.
Thank you so much for all of the reviews, favorites, follows, readers, and submitters that have given this story a gander. I can't wait to introduce them and let their colors show through the chapters. I've got an interesting set so far, and I sure hope I have represented them as accurately as possible, though there will be stuff I reveal later on.
OC's introduced are:
Silverdragon98's Reinforce Yukimura and Caius Yuto.
leepingleamer's Roxanna "Roxy" Black
BladeOfTheEclispe's Jin Hogaraka
Lazyboredom's Jared Frederick
NOW I need four more OC's from you, yes you! The requirements are in the first chapter, and if you want to submit through review because of no account. . . GO AHEAD. I'm going to be nice. But go easy on me eh?
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